Our latest Fourhand installment features happenings that are cocktail-soaked, seaworthy, sleek, and same-sex affirming. Let's get right to it:
BLONDE AMBITIONS COLLIDE She has claimed an aversion to nightclub and awards-show afterglow atmospheres in late-night TV interviews in the past, but Maria Sharapova was on full display in a lily-white frock at sponsor Tag Heuer's bash this week, partying with the sisters of DJ duo Nervo and model Kate Peck. Postscript: She also took a surprise selfie-stick photo with budding Aussie-teen talent Thanasi Kokkinakis and the (count 'em) 380 ballkids of this impending 2015 Australian Open. That's Maria: Making hundreds of dreams come true at once with the single press of a mobile-phone button.
WATERSPORTS Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt, two multi-major-winning stalwarts of the sport, opted not for Melbourne's toe-chewing tennis turf recently but for a battle at sea in Sydney Harbour, taking shots at each other from the security of speedboat perches: